Pieces of God

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"The fact that we exist is proof that God is motivated to act in some way. And since only the challenge of self-destruction could interest an omnipotent God, it stands to reason that we... are God’s debris."

Is there a God? What happens after we die? Why does energy fuel everything? Is there such a thing as a soul, and how does it fit into things?

Real Life poses these and other heavy, unanswerable questions, and philosophy sets out to answer them. One trope that attempts to answer all four questions is the idea that everyone and everything has a soul, and each is a piece of God. God Is Dead (but not dead enough), or consciousness/physics is just God attempting to reform itself into one coherent mass again.

Which raises the question, why is God in pieces? The answer might never be revealed. If it is, it usually has to do with God wanting to imbue a piece of him/herself (in these stories, God is unlikely to be described with a gender) in creation. God sacrifices its Omnipotence to imbue a divine energy that allows for intelligence in all beings. By sacrificing its individual self, God becomes a Prometheus bringing life to all. Another possibility is that God wants to use a cycle of Reincarnation and afterlives to "level up" by gaining the accumulated wisdom of humanity, and in the process make the soul-fragments wiser and kinder. Finally, it may be that God effectively became so bored of being all-knowing and all-powerful that it committed a Seen-It-All Suicide (in which case, assembling God anew may or may not be a good idea).

In Real Life theology, this system of belief is referred to as Pantheism or Pandeism.

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Anime & Manga

In Code Geass, God is the collective unconscious of all humans from the past, present, and future. In season two, Emperor Charles reveals that his ultimate goal is to kill God, essentially merging all of humanity's minds and souls into one eternal being, which would allow him to never have to deal with losing a loved one. However, Lelouch objects to his haughty ideals, believing that if such a thing were to occur, humanity would lose its individuality and sense of self, instead using his Geass to make God resist Charles' attempt to slay it, and it in turn destroys Charles and Marianne for their hubris.

In the Thousand Year Blood War for Bleach, we have Yhwach, who is the major enemy, and the original Quincy. The reason all other Quincies exist is because he shared pieces of his soul with them. These soul fragments become their Quincy powers. And this soul fragment is technically now a part of the Quincy, so any offspring inherit the Quincy power as well. Yhwach is associated by many Quincies with the Christian God, partly because of this. However, when a Quincy actually dies, they lose that piece of soul, which goes back to Yhwach. Also, if Yhwach feels the need to, he can forcibly remove his soul fragment, with the side effect of killing the Quincy. He has caused at least two massacres by removing Quincy powers en masse.

Slayers has the world's equivalent of Satan, Ruby-Eye Shabranigdo, split into seven pieces and sealed away into human souls; one is sealed in a Grim Up North, and another was destroyed during the series by Lina and her allies twice. A third piece was destroyed in the final book of the original light novel series as well. The God equivalent Ceifeed is allegedly gone for good, but fragments of him occasionally are born in others, branding them his knights, including Lina's sister Luna. How this works is unknown. Of one lesser god, Ragradia, two fragments survived: one looks like a little female Yoda, and the other resides in an immortal human being known as the Eternal Queen of Zephilia.

Additionally, the very fabric of each universe in the Slayers Multiverse is a part of the body of the story's ultimate God, the Lord of Nightmares. Why she gave up her body to make this is unknown, but giving her body back by destroying the "axis" holding the universes is the ultimate goal of all demons.

The Arm Of Kannon series revolves around the pieces of a godlike being that ended up on Earth and the various people that want to exploit them or seal them away.

In the Fullmetal Alchemist-verse, it's revealed that humans hold a piece of the Gate of Truth as part of their soul, with Alchemists' being particularly potent and allowing them access to Alchemy. Ed uses this to his benefit in the climax when he willingly gives up his piece of the Gate (and thus his ability to perform Alchemy) in return for Alphonse, which Truth accepts as Equivalent Exchange.

The 2003 anime version'sGecko Ending also uses this explanation, in some different ways. Amongst other things, it explains why their homonculi, being The Soulless, cannot perform Alchemy. Wrath is an exception because he's using Edward's arm.

Out of all things, this is how Fragments works in NEEDLESS: each Fragment is a piece of power of a person named "Christ Second". There are twonote Add Saten in the anime adaptation characters whose Fragment, whose goal in life is Power Copying all the Fragments, and each of them has certain degree of A God Am I. Unlike most other examples in this page (which are DEEP or at least trying to pose themselves as so), this is generally Played for Laughs (and not the Black Humor kind).

In Bloody Cross, God's Inheritences are artifacts that contain pieces/fragments of God's power, and various "God candidates" are trying to gather them so they can use that power to become the next God.

Naruto: All chakra used by humans originated from the God-Tree and was stolen when a woman ate its Forbidden Fruit. She passed the stolen power to her children, the Sage of Six Paths and his brother, who then shared it with humanity. To reclaim its stolen power the God-Tree transformed into a mindlessbeast called the Juubi. The Sage of Six Paths along with his brother subjugated it, sealing its chakra into his own body and creating the moon to act as a tomb for its body. The Sage later split the Juubi's chakra and used it to create the nine Bijuu while the Sage's brother took their clan to guard the moon. Madara's end game relies on collecting the bijuu, restoring the Juubi, and using its power to his own ends.

In Steel Ball Run, the seventh part of Jojos Bizarre Adventure, the plot heavily centers around collecting the parts of a corpse that, when merged with someone, grants them a Stand, and collecting the whole corpse will grant an ultimate power to the weilder. It's never especified who the corpse belongs to; though they are described as belonging to "a saint", it's heavily implied that they actually belong to Jesus Christ himself.

Comic Books

Promethea brings about The End of the World as We Know It and causes every human to merge their divine soul. The result? People are still individuals, but the spiritual reunification brings everyone to change their perspectives and make the world a better place.

Something vaguely analogous happens in Earth X, where the various alternate universes are fragments of the one original creation. The Elders of the Universe are trying to re-merge them back into a single universe, ignoring the fact that the inhabitants of the existing universes will lose their individuality in the process. However, there were clearly many different beings in the original universe as well.

The DC Universe (well, multiverse) is the same way; originally one universe that got split due to a very ill-advised experiment to observe creation.

In one Defenders story, Eternity, a Cosmic Entity who embodies the universe, decided to send pieces of itself to Earth, in human forms and with no memories, to "experience" humanity. Later he returned their memories and most of them re-merged with him, thus giving him humanity by proxy. However, three of the pieces were missing, and he had The Defenders find out who had stolen them. The heroes find out that nobody had stolen them- they were hiding because they loved being human too much and didn't want to merge with Eternity again. However the Defender Nighthawk called them on how selfish they were being, since an incomplete Eternity would cause chaos on Earth eventually, meaning they hadn't really learned to care after all. Realizing their error, the fragments then rejoined Eternity.

In Justice League: Heaven's Ladder, godlike aliens who have no religious beliefs of their own send "sleeper agents" to various planets -including Earth- so they can learn about Faith; then they collect them and use their collective beliefs to... ''create their own afterlife!''

The Infinity Gems in the Marvel Universe are the remnants of a god that committed suicide from loneliness after creating the universe. There is a seventh gem that contains its Ego.

Film

In Avatar, this overlaps with the concept of Gaia: Everyone is connected to the web of life. Thanks to Phlebotinum and ponytail nerve clusters!

"All life on Pandora is tied together via nerve-like connections, making the entire ecosystem one giant living entity... or god, if you like. "

TRON universe: the closest we get to an explanation of the computer world's resemblance to the human one is when Encom founder Walter Gibbs rants at Dillinger. An odd example, as humans are the Gods in question.

Gibbs:You can remove men like Alan and me from the system, but we helped create it, and our spirit remains in every program we design!"

In The Sundering, the universe is the broken body of the primordial deity.

In Brandon Sanderson's multiverse The Cosmere, all the gods are actually originally-human minds bound to pieces of something else ( the pieces are called Shards) that was destroyed millennia ago (though whether Adonalsium was a god or something more like The Force is unclear). At the end of the Mistborn trilogy, two opposing Shards get combined together into a single deity.

Also, Word of God has revealed that the Returned of Warbreaker are empowered by Splinters of power from another Shard, called Endowment. Yes, they're pieces of a god that is a piece of a god.

Wordof God has also revealed that the Seons and the Skaze from Elantris are also splinters (or something very close) of two Shards called Aona (who holds Devotion or one similarly named) and Skai (who held Dominion) respectively. They are also the Source of the Aon Dor and the other magic systems in Elantris. They were splintered when Odium, another Shard, came to the planet they were on, defeated them both and splintered them

The spren from The Stormlight Archive are pieces of three other Shards, Honor, Odium and Cultivation. Syl even states it at some point.

Oh, but I am a god! Just a very, very small piece of one.

Edgar Allan Poe wrote this in a philosophical piece called "Mesmeric Revelation". Unusually, Poe proposed that the reunification of God would be a bad thing—since creation is good, and reunification would render it a wasted effort.

White Apples by Jonathan Carroll is a perfect example of this trope, the gist being that God Asplode to make the universe, and when we die we become part of "the mosaic" which is God, who then promptly asplode again when the mosaic is complete.

Adherents of the Circle in The Shattered World believe that mortals' souls are fragments of a single Oversoul, which split apart much like the planet itself. Unlike most examples, this isn't actually implied to be true, just a theological notion based on how the world was broken up.

Though it's never quite stated explicitly, Unity in the Galactic Milieu Trilogy is rather deific- a sort of gestalt conciousness formed of all the metapsychics in existence, which they can commune with.

In the book Cats Have No Lord, the creator split into the gods of all aspects of the world to create the world, and planned to reunite (destroying the world in doing so) but the God of Cats is missing, and thus the world continues to exist. One of the heroes is sworn to serve and rescue the Cat God, and is being manipulated by a cult that believes they are obligated to allow God's plan to continue, even at the cost of the end of all existence. In the end, the heroes Take a Third Option by replacing the Cat God in his exile with the Wolf God (who was trying to kill them).

In the Star Wars Expanded Universe, the Mandalorians believe that all who follow the way of their culture are part of the ''manda' or oversoul. To turn one's back on the Mandalorian culture is to lose contact with this greater, shared bond and is considered less than nothing. To an extent, The Force could also be considered this, with every living being being part of the Force (jury's out on whether the Vong were really an exception).

A non-supernatural example in the Eldraeverse; the Eldraeic Transcend is a Deus Est Machina which runs a tiny Hive Mind fragment of itself inside each of its members - thus enabling it to know exactly what each of them desires, fears, needs, etc.

In the Corum books by Michael Moorcock, it's Lampshaded. Corum uses the Hand of Kwll (which has been grafted to his own mortal wrist) to pick of the Heart of Arioch, and muses, "The world seems full of fragments of Gods."

In H.P. Lovecraft's story "Through the Gates of the Silver Key", Randolph Carter learns that all conscious beings are actually tiny aspects of Eldritch Abominations outside time and space, granted the illusion of individuality by their limited perception of the universe. Facing the Great Old One Yog-Sothoth, he realizes that he and it are the same being.

Delenn: Then I will tell you a great secret, Captain. Perhaps the greatest of all time. The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make up this station and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are starstuff, we are the universe made manifest, trying to figure itself out. As we have both learned, sometimes the universe requires a change of perspective.

Lost has the Island, the primordial source of all life energy. Since the show is about the inherent subjectivity of existence, it's kept intentionally vague, but it can be interpreted as many different philosophies like Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, Jungian psychology, and more (just take a peek at the Philosophy & Religion folder).

Carl Jung's idea of a "collective unconscious". Basically, the collective unconscious is an Akashic Record-like entity which takes the form of a Freudian Unconscious on a cosmic, impersonal, universal scale. It brings forth our conscious psychic experience through trope-like archetypes. Although your mileage may vary, if you consider the collective unconscious as "God", since it's after all a Mind Screw to fully explain here on This Very Wiki. Jung, though, was very interested in explaining it away as quantum physics, entanglement theory, et cetera, and actually discussed the subject with pantheist Albert Einstein.

Sufism, a branch of Islam that incorporated concepts from India, maintains that the entire physical universe is a part of God.

Other religions have things like God is a giant bird who laid the universe as an egg.

In Chinese mythology, everything between the sky and earth is parts of the body of the first god, Pangu, who was formed from primordial chaos, and in turn split the sky and earth from each other over thousands of years.

Pantheism, monism are the basis of many mainstream philosophies including Buddhism.

Deism sometimes believes in God as a metaphor for the nature of the universe. Pandeism is a subset of both Deism and Pantheism which explicitly believes this.

Stoicism (not necessarily that one) maintained that everyone in the world had a spark of Divine Fire in them, which after death went back to rejoin the almighty World Soul.

Quakers believe that God, Jesus, or the Light is in everyone, and so they preach nonviolence (would you kill God?), equality (well, if God's in everyone...), and integrity (would you lie to God?).

Some believe that Jesus Christ himself was a piece of God,considering Jesus's quotes stating that he is lesser than God,but simultaneously IS Him.

Loosely in Norse Mythology and it's modern reconstruction; the world tree Yggdrasil and the 7 worlds (two worlds are not part of Yggdrasil) originate from the giant Ymer whose body was cut into pieces by Odin and his brothers to make the universe.

The idea behind Paramatman in Hindu thought is that there is sort of a Universe Soul, and Atman are individual souls.

The Body of Christ, in Christianity, is a possible candidate for this. Each person is viewed as a distinct part of Christ, with a distinct purpose.

Tabletop Games

This is part of the Back Story for White Wolf's Mage: The Ascension. All human beings have a tiny spark of the divine in them (called the Avatar). Those who are Awakened are called Mages and can use it to manipulate reality.

Fascinating in that a Soul is not in itself divine. Mages can make souls, but these lack the divine aspect even the lowliest Muggle's soul carries. Of course, all this means is they can never Awaken and become Mages.

That same spark of the divine makes humans valuable to demons - humans have Faith, which demons need to fuel their powers. Faith can be shared or taken, the demon's choice. The Karma Meter would prefer they have it shared.

Mummy used this too. Osiris has been scattered around the world, and there's a bunch of Amenti trying to put him back together.

Mage: The Awakening has it that many mages believe that souls are fragments of the Supernal World that descended to the Material World and that return to the Supernal upon death, bringing their experiences back with them. Speculated reasons for this include the universe trying to understand itself, a punishment levied by mad or cruel gods, or a kind of self-imposed challenge. In terms of this model, the Awakening is merely the soul recalling its divine origin. The status of this cycle following the Fall is a subject of concern for some mages.

Warhammer 40,000 has an Eldar war god literally in pieces. The Avatars of Khaine are an example.

In some way, this also applies to the Immortal Emperor. There are implications - and in one The Inquisition War novels it was explicitly though unreliably stated - that this is what's happened to his conscious remnant, having split into dozens if not hundreds of personalities and fragments. There's the part that feeds the Astronomican, the fragments which influence the Emperor's Tarot, the parts that speak and give visions to his people, the tiny portions which are imbued within Astropaths during the Soul Binding, not to mention the vast amounts of effort needed to fight the Warp as a whole, and in the broken Webway gate, with the Golden Throne itself serving as a psychic barrier. If the Emperor's body were to fully die, it's believed he may be reborn as the Star Child, a new god of the Warp loyal to Mankind... We hope. Or, he may be reincarnated. Or there might be a psychic apocalypse which destroys all life in the galaxy. Or perhaps the gibbering madness and incomparable evil of the Chaos gods might be able to flow freely into the material world, creating a new galaxy-sized Hell. Understandably, there is rather considerable in-universe controversy over whether the Emperor's death would be a good thing..

Speaking of the God-Emperor in Astronomican, thousands of psykers are sacrificed to him daily to reinforce his withering self. One can imagine those poor fellas being indoctrinated into believing that they are pieces of God-Emperor about to unite with him.

The C'tan, the oldest known beings in the universe, got their asses handed to them by the Necrons and were shattered into dozens of Shards. The Shards are autonomous, acting as what are basically demigods, and the Necrons are trying to capture and tame them. Transcendant C'tan are what happens if too many Shards merge together — if enough of them unite, they reform into the original C'tan. This is obviously something the Necrons try to prevent at all costs.

In Vampire: The Masquerade, two of the Antediluvian (the grandchilde of Caine, extremely powerful and ancient vampire with almost godlike powers) are said to be "split" and living in their Clan's members: Haqim,also called Assam, who lives in the blood of Assamites, and Malkav, who lives in the mind of Malkavians.

The crystalline shardminds of Dungeons & Dragons's 4th edition are a variant of this. While it's not clear that the Living Gate from whose destruction during the cataclysmic Dawn War they sprung was necessarily a god, it did have the important cosmic function of keeping the eldritch abominations of the Far Realm out of the known multiverse. The shardminds themselves are still dedicated to the Living Gate's original purpose and trying to rebuild it, but don't all agree on how to best go about that, which leads to conflict (especially with the Shard Slayer faction, whose favored method is killing as many shardminds as possible to release their animating life forces in hopes that they'll return to the Gate's original location). They're a player character race.

Earlier in the 3.5 sourcebook Frostburn, the Rimefire Eidolons are the living manifestations of the ancient winder deity Hlied, who landed in the polar seas after she was struck down ages ago by her nemesis, Iborighu.

Toys

Apparently this is the true form of the Transformers' god Primus in some continuities. Each Transformer houses a tiny fragment of him known as a "spark" that returns to the collective known as the "All Spark" upon death to share knowledge and experience as part of his incomprehensibly complex plan to deal with his Evil Counterpart Unicron.

Then there are the Alternity, Autobots and Maximals who have evolved to a point where not only are they powerful and transcendent, they're actually connected to every other alternate version of themselves or something. Even more, they can actually induct said alternate selves into a semi-Instrumentality, retaining their individuality while becoming an avatar for their Alternity.

Nexus Prime, one of the original thirteen Transformers who fought to defeat Unicron in antiquity, is notable for being the combined form of five separate, sentient Cybertronians with no knowledge of their combined form.

In BIONICLE, the robot body of the Great Spirit Mata Nui was a universe in itself, with many different races living on the continents inside, unwittingly maintaining him — keeping him alive. In return, he kept the basic forces of nature under check, and made their environment inhabitable, thus they (well, most of them) revered him as a god. Word of God compared it to a human and his internal organs, all part of the same being. However to his creators, the Great Beings, Mata Nui was simply an instrument in their plans, and the beings inside him were only meant to keep him functioning as nanotech, not have conscience and build up a religion around him.

Video Games

In Lusternia, this is how most of the many mortal races were created. The Elder Gods faced a Hopeless War against The Soulless Ones, and some chose to fragment their consciousness, creating "children" which retained qualities of their parent god. (Some Gods chose to flee into the Void rather than suffer this, however.) Though mortals can ascend to become Demigods themselves, it's made clear that their progenitors are for all intents and purposes dead, and can never be remade by reuniting their fragments. On the other hand, since mortals can reproduce endlessly, and can all (potentially) become Demigods, they're collectively stronger than their "progenitor" God could be.

All the realms in Mortal Kombat are created from the shattered consciousness (and maybe body) of the One Being, and if allowed to merge back into him, will result in The End of the World as We Know It. So, why was he split, and why is he trying to get himself back together? Turns out, he and the Elder Gods were the only creatures to exist before the beginning of the multiverse, and the Elder Gods were getting tired of the One Being feasting on their energies. Splitting him up, transforming his consciousness/body into the multiple realms, and assigning a protector god for each is all to ensure he can't harm them, anymore.

Xenogears technically does this twice; once in a profoundly dark and twisted way. First of all, Deus, the 'God' in this game is really just a huge Biological Weapon that created Humans as parts to repair his body and basically manipulates them to live then die just so they can be pieces of him, all while under the guise in legends and religious texts to literally be God. The second incarnation is far, far lighter as it turns out that the real God, a higher being known only as "the Wave Existence", has been trapped within physical constructs. Unlike Deus, allowing this thing to get back together isn't bad at all - as all it wants to do is go home and leave humanity to its own devices.

According to the Creation Myth in Brütal Legend, everything in the Age of Metal consists of four elements: Blood, Fire, Noise, and Metal. And those four are the remains of Ormagoden, an Eldritch Abomination-slash-Creator Deity: namely, his blood, spirit, roar, and flesh (all very tangible things in a world of Heavy Metal). In other words, pretty much everything you see in the game (including Eddie) is a piece of Ormagoden.

The True Runes in the Suikoden series. The series' mythology holds that in ancient times, the universe was created by accident from a battle between god-like entities known as the Sword and the Shield. They destroyed each other in the process, and their fragments became the 27 True Runes.

After beating Dragon Quest IX, the almighty god Zenus is nowhere to be found, but ten of the twelve postgame grotto bosses either state or imply that they are fragments of him.

In Shin Megami Tensei IV, Minako's collecting several demon souls - Astaroth's, Mother Harlot's, and Asherah's. The common point? They were all born from the now-dead mother goddess Ishtar, and by consuming their souls and a Red Pill, sacrificing her body, mind and soul, she hopes to revive and summon Ishtar to grant new fertility to Tokyo. She succeeds, and the resurrected Ishtar even implies there's still a piece of Minako within.

In the Warlords and Warlords Battlecry series, Lord Sartek, god of the minotaurs, was betrayed, murdered, and dismembered into hundreds of little pieces by fellow Horseman Lord Bane. Minotaurs like to collect bits of Sartek with the eventual goal of putting him back together again. In WBC 2 and 3, the Skull of Sartek is the minotaur titan. In the WBC 3 campaign, collecting the five fingers of the Hand of Sartek earns you the allegiance of the minotaurs and a bonus to your hero's combat power. And finally, in Puzzle Quest, they put him back together, and his first act is to return the favor to Bane and give each chunk to a different civilization.

Final Fantasy VII had Sephiroth, named after a concept from the Kabbalah (see above), directing his "clones" ( really just humans injected with Jenova cells) to return to him so he can reform himself as a god.

RuneScape has Seren, Goddess of the Elves. When the edicts were enacted that demanded all the gods leave Gielinor, Seren elected to commit suicide and shatter herself into pieces rather than leave the elves. The current final quest in the series is putting her back together.

A highly plausible fan theory for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is that the souls of all dragons, Alduin and the Dragonborn included, are fragments of the soul of Akatosh, the time god whose typical guise in mythology is a dragon. When the Dragonborn (or any other dragon) absorbs the soul of another, it's actually fragments of the Akatosh over-soul recombining.

Both played straight and somewhat played with in Dark Souls. Word of God states that Humanity are actually pieces of the Dark Soul, the soul found by the Furtive Pygmy, the very first human. Played with in that humans have a soul in addition to humanity.

It's implied the Darklurker is another such piece, as are Elana, the Squalid Queen from the Crown of the Sunken King DLC and Nadalia, the Bride of Ash from Crown of the Iron King DLC. Alsanna, the Silent Oracle, from the Crown of the Ivory King DLC is said to be the embodiment of Manus' fear, more or less on par with Nashandra, but, remarkably, acting as her Good Counterpart, doing what she can to seal off the ruins of Lost Izalith and Old Chaos.

In Grandia II, Valmar (the resident God of Evil) was long ago split into multiple parts, who as of the time of the game are taking human hosts in an attempt to reunite and revive him.

One of the big reveals in Persona 4 is that the Sagiri enemies, Kunino-Sagiri and Ameno-Sagiri, who appeared to be behind the events of the game are in fact pieces of Izanami, the true mastermind. In Golden, so is Marie.

Persona 3 also used this trope in the form of the twelve Full Moon Shadows. Each of the twelve is a fragment of a thirteenth shadow, Death, which was sealed inside the Protagonist and takes the form of Pharos. Defeating the others allows them to reintegrate, which is a very bad thing as a completed death has no choice but to trigger The Fall and summon Nyx to wipe out all life on earth, whether he wants to or not.

Supplemental materials also reveal that all Shadows are actually fragments of Nyx which concious minds on earth have a habit of locking inside themselves. Personas are the result of a strong-willed person controlling their personal Shadow, which makes them fragments of Nyx as well.

In Gyossait, Oyeatia tore the eponymous goddess to pieces in a fit of rage when she destroyed humanity. Pieces of Gyossait are powerful enough to turn mortal men into pseudo-gods - as evidenced by Uzaza when he found the Heart of Gyossait.

Ghosts in Destiny are this in a more literal sense than most uses of this trope; during the Collapse the Traveler used the last bit of its fading strength to expel thousands upon thousands of Ghosts to carry pieces of its Light and intelligence so that they could create the Guardians that would protect the Last City. Each Ghost is an entity unto itself, but they all are aligned with the Traveler and aid humanity in to struggle against TheDarkness.

Webcomics

In Godslave, Anpu has had his soul splintered into nine pieces - ba - which his fellow gods hid separately. In fact, what Edith finds is just one of the ba, and it tasks her with finding the rest to reassemble him.

Web Original

Several SCPs are mentioned as (possibly) being divine in nature, there's even a cult the Foundation has to fight over them: the Church of the Broken God. And if the Church ever succeeded in reuniting all the pieces of their "God"... Well, you'd have to be on the Moon to avoid the resulting apocalypse, and even that might not be far enough.

In the Global Guardians PBEM Universe, the Church of the Ascendant is a cult that believes superhumans came about because God split his own essence up into millions of tiny pieces and spread it all around the world, and that its only been recently, when the human population approached a certain critical number, that the "power of God" (represented by the various superpowers possesed by the heroes and villains) has been able to manifest again, if only in a limited way. They believe that the higher the human population, the greater the power will manifest until eventually, God himself (herself? itself?) will manifest physically on the Earth and the human species will ascend into the next stage of being. Most people in the GGU think they're kooks.

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